Hansraj Gautam

@hansraj88.bsky.social

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Postdoc @University of Turku, 🇫🇮 | animal behaviour, ecology and climate change | Working on Asian elephants, focusing on social behaviour, functional ecology & demography 🐘🌿🌳
Past: PhD @JNCASR and postdoc@NCBS, 🇮🇳.

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Environmental science 45%

Psychology 17%

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George Matsumoto @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social · 4d

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine Scientist Position – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), full-time, permanent Marine Scientist position based in Panama. Application review begins February 15, 2026 (open until filled). Early-career researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. www.stri.si.edu

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute was founded with the purpose of increasing and sharing knowledge about the past, present and future of tropical ecosystems and their relevance to human welf...

www.stri.si.edu

Reposted by Richard McElreath, Brendan Nyhan, Chris Hanretty , and 1 more Richard McElreath, Brendan Nyhan, Chris Hanretty, Hansraj Gautam

Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 5d

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 6d

"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance

Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...

www.science.org

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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · 8d

🌍🔍 Would you like to do your PhD with us?

We are an eligible host institution for the INPhINIT Doctoral Fellowships from Fundación ”la Caixa”.

👉 Open to researchers of any nationality wishing to pursue a PhD at centres of excellence in Spain or Portugal.

🔗 lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 14d

The US pirating a Cuba-bound oil tanker from Venezuela illustrates how the empire is hurrying to shore up control over Latin America in the same way the US and Israel are quickly shoring up control over the middle east.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes

Reading by Tim Foley:

www.caitlinjohnst.one

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Hansraj Gautam

Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social · 17d

sad news that Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died. A great and wonderful champion of elephants over a long life! He has changed the world for the better, especially how people view elephants.

Iain D-H in Oxford with elephant colleagues

Reposted by Nina Buchmann, Brian J. Enquist, Tuomas Mattila , and 2 more Nina Buchmann, Brian J. Enquist, Tuomas Mattila, Fernando Pulido, Hansraj Gautam

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 19d

To remember William Bond, you could listen to his powerful talk on behalf of grasses! It is a seminal lesson in savanna ecology. Personally, I also find it nice to hear his voice.

jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2021/02/21/a...

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience #savanna

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 21d

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social · 29d

Happy to share my new paper on the nutritional ecology of elephants🌿🐘

Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29d

Use coal for over two centuries. Close the last plant in 2024 and claim 'climate leadership'. Drill the North Sea for oil and gas to near-depletion. Then announce a 'ban' with relaxations to drill more in existing fields. No one does 'climate leadership' like the UK

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, David W. Lawson, Hansraj Gautam

Jacinta Beehner @jbeehner.bsky.social · Nov 19

Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...

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Lummaa Lab @lummaalab.bsky.social · Nov 19

There is another Masters project in our group:

Examining the influence of climate on births in the Asian elephant 🐘🐘🐘

More details on both these projects at
sfecologie.org/offre/examin...

sfecologie.org/offre/fitnes...

Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social · Nov 19

Join us for this interesting project on fitness consequences of early life experiences in humans 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 or elephants 🐘🐘🐘!!

Lummaa Lab @lummaalab.bsky.social · Nov 17

We are looking for a Masters student for an exciting project!

Fitness consequences of cumulative silver-spoon 🥄🥄 effects in a long-lived mammal.

Study system could be humans 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 or elephants 🐘🐘 depending on your interest.

✉️ @hansraj88.bsky.social @axdela.bsky.social @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Nov 18

🪰 Density-dependent selection at high food levels leads to the evolution of persistence but not constancy in Drosophila melanogaster populations

Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3vqUTal

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jonas Trepel, Hansraj Gautam

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Nov 17

🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales

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@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

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Lummaa Lab @lummaalab.bsky.social · Nov 17

Reposted by Ruth Mace, Rebecca Sear, Hansraj Gautam

Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Nov 10

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
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Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Tommaso Jucker, Hansraj Gautam

Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social · Nov 10

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol

University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 7

The Swedish King stepping in it today in Brazil by suggesting that the multilateral climate change process is likely to fail and that Europe does not have any responsibility to pay for climate change impacts on the Global South. He is wrong and should be prevented from making such statements.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Michael W. Kraus , and 4 more Marc Lynch, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Michael W. Kraus, Silvia Secchi, Robert Wolfe, Lisa Diedrich, Hansraj Gautam

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Nov 5

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social · Nov 5

Congratulations!!

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 3

Wow this is good on inequality, especially at minute 5.30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEnf...

Is inequality inevitable?

YouTube video by TED-Ed

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Benjamin Wildermuth , and 1 more Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Benjamin Wildermuth, Hansraj Gautam

Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Nov 3

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Patrick A. Jansen, Chhaya M. Werner , and 3 more Julie L. Lockwood, Patrick A. Jansen, Chhaya M. Werner, Etienne Lalechère, Connor Morozumi, Hansraj Gautam

Tess Grainger @tessgrainger.bsky.social · Nov 3

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · Oct 31

Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing

What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...

Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · Oct 31

‼️ Thrilled to share my first article on the Kalahari meerkats ‼️, in @animalecology.bsky.social! Group membership strongly influences gut microbiomes & especially the co-occurrence of beneficial bacteria, beyond animals' age or sex, disease status, or environmental exposure

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Impact of animal socioecology on gut microbial communities: Insights from wild meerkats in the Kalahari

Our study addresses critical gaps at the nexus of animal and microbial ecologies, adding much-needed empirical support to recent theoretical frameworks that have conceptualised gut microbiomes as bei...

doi.org

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Oct 31

Senior Research Fellow - conservation & finance
bit.ly/4oRzibT

Part of Oxford EARTH (Ensuring equitable Access to sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat), we're seeking someone with interdisciplinary expertise in conservation science, ecology, environmental economics, and nature finance

Job Details

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Reposted by Ben C. Sheldon, Valeria Mazza, Benjamin Larue , and 1 more Ben C. Sheldon, Valeria Mazza, Benjamin Larue, Hansraj Gautam

Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · Oct 28

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

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Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht, Hansraj Gautam

Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Oct 28

Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications

Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...

www.nature.com

Hansraj Gautam @hansraj88.bsky.social · Oct 27

Congratulations @deepaagashe.bsky.social

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 25

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · Oct 25

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World

The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World

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